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Originally Posted by The Yen Man
Sure, but the 100% tariff thing seems pretty counter productive to Canada's zero emission strategy. The Canadian government wants more adoption of EV, but one of the big barriers to entry remains cost. Should they not let less expensive options in as part of that adoption strategy and to also spur more competition with the other car brands? It's not like Canada has any auto brands that need protecting.
If the goal is to continue to have Ontario's auto plants function, then pursuing zero emissions seems counter productive the other way, especially with the US setting their line in the sand to go against anything remotely benefitting the environment. Plus, it's not like they are helping us out with all these tariffs.
Why not open the option to drop those tariffs and see if we can make a deal with Chinese EV companies to have factories here to replace some of the other car manufacturing factories?
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Cheap is fine and dandy, but do you trust the manufacturer? I don't and neither does the government.
Look at what is happening with other Chinese manufactured electronics. They are being deemed unsafe and needing to be removed from our infrastructure. Whether it is solar panel inverters or Huawei network gear, cyber security experts are finding backdoors and kill switches.
Having cars on the road with backdoors built in that can give control to a potentially hostile foreign government needs to be curbed, whether it's Chinese or American.
Support Project Arrow and get them mass producing Canadian built EVs.